Photo Gallery: Deported Pasadena resident returned to US on humanitarian parole

Photo Gallery: Deported Pasadena resident returned to US on humanitarian parole

Raul Roa/Staff Photographer

With his 16-yr. old daughter Elizabeth next to him, Francisco Cortez, 43 of Pasadena, listens to a question from a member of the media during press conference at the offices of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, December 7, 2011. The...

With his 16-yr. old daughter Elizabeth next to him, Francisco Cortez, 43 of Pasadena, listens to a question from a member of the media during press conference at the offices of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, December 7, 2011. The... (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

With his 16-yr. old daughter Elizabeth next to him, Francisco Cortez, 43 of Pasadena, listens to a question from a member of the media during press conference at the offices of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, December 7, 2011. The...Raul Roa/Staff Photographer